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The Gentlemen - Movie Review Critics Score -  7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Blackmail:  the action, treated as a criminal offense, of demanding payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them. When you combine this concept with nefarious individuals capable of all types of heinous activities, you’ve got a recipe for some situations in which sparks, and probably some blood, will fly. In enters The Gentlemen, a movie that uses all the things previously mentioned to provide us with a fun, entertaining, if a bit muddled, story about some generally likable although clearly not very good men trying to outmaneuver each other for millions of dollars. Sadly a bit light on humor, we are spectators in the seats of an epic mental jousting tournament between these gentlemen with twist and turns aplenty as each side tries to get an upper hand in the game. The film is light in tone as well as stingy and casual wit...

Luca - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 General Audience Score - 7 Pixar Animation Studios which first dropped Toy Story on us back in 1995 kept an absolutely stellar record of phenomenal original films up until Toy Story 3 in 2010. Since then the Pixar track record has suffered significantly with Pete Doctor’s Inside Out & Soul being the only films worth mentioning with much truly outstanding originality. Here comes 2021 and another new director to the Pixar animation world, Enrico Casarosa, gives us Luca to try his hand at breathing some life into the dying, creativity fueled Pixar machine that once was at the top of the industry. The beautiful color palette the film uses to bring us to this small Italian town immediately grabs our attention, it’s truly something to behold and the animation is the standard of excellence we know and love from Pixar. The originality the films premise revolves around is what makes the movie shine but it falters in the end due to some more mundane aspe...

Sputnik - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 By the 1980’s the space race was over, man had orbited the earth, set foot on the moon, established space stations and accomplished numerous other feats in the realm above the Earth. Although the race was over, travel into the orbit of the Earth was still in full swing as the Cold War ran it's course and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. kept jockeying for the upper hand against each other. Sputnik was the name of a series of satellites and spacecrafts the Russians were sending into the Earth's orbit through the duration of the Cold War. A new Russian language film by the same name tells the story of two men on one of these random trips to space by the former Soviet Union back in the early 1980's. This movie is an original and inventive take on the sci-fi/alien/space travel premise, the tension hangs thick in the air and the mood is foreboding, it's well paced even if a bit on the slower side with an al...

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 So we all know that someday A.I. will gain consciousness and it’ll probably be an intelligent algorithm designed by some random company, like Netflix or something. Fortunately for us it’s entire purpose won’t be enslaving mankind or taking over the Earth, it’s  much more probable it’ll be something more benign like making movies that convince us an A.I. takeover would only be amusing and filled with comical mischief and silly shenanigans. Wait a minute. The Mitchells Vs.The Machines is the most recent animated film from Netflix that covers the subject of an A.I. that decides that humans need to go, by far the most popular option of all the purposes an A.I. could have. From some of the same people that put together the fantastically fun Lego Movie and one of the greatest animated films ever, Spiderman Into The Spiderverse, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines is a unique, quick-witted an...

In The Heights - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 General Audience Score - 8 The musical in Hollywood cinema has become about as rare of an item these days as a cool summer day in NYC. Musical lyrics being injected into cinematic sequences and interlaced with dialogue is a dangerous venture which often just doesn’t land. But when it does, oh boy, you can find yourself witnessing some of the finest work in cinema. The combination of great film work and fantastic music when paired and perfectly in sync is an absolutely magical experience. In The Heights is the newest musical experience currently available to stream on HBO Max and though it may not reach the Best Picture winning caliber of some of it’s predecessors, it may very well put itself in the conversation. It's a visually engaging and an overall fun time at the movies, even if some of the story is predictable and the drama feels somewhat contrived. Pick it apart all you like, no matter it's flaws, there's a fresh new sou...

Supernova - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 It’s wonderful to see more people from the LGBTQ community represented in film and it's even better to see Hollywood making an effort to give individuals within it opportunities to write, direct, produce and act in more of these films. These are steps in the right direction we're making as a society and they are commendable, but there's so much farther to go, it's difficult to give ourselves any kind of pat on the back. Supernova flirts with the precarious position of having both lead characters represent members of the LGBTQ community while not being members of the group themselves. This is certainly a point of contention for some, I acknowledge this as a fair criticism of it's casting decisions, while this review will strive to critique the film for it's merits in cinematic terms. The emotional weight the film carries is powerful and moving, two equally legitimate and heavyweight...

Run - Movie Review Critics Score - 6 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Single Parent families are on the rise in our modern society, the U.S. leading the way among all countries with many confident, strong women taking the challenges of parenthood head on and raising their children alone. Although there are plenty of single fathers raising children, so many women are busy working secularly as well as molding and shaping the young minds of tomorrow. Run is the story of one such single mother and daughter relationship that has some interesting tricks up it's sleeve. The film is never heavy hitting, doesn't delve into any issues of note, but on the surface is perfectly fine for what it brings to the table. For coming in at just under an hour and a half, it's a perfectly fun, anxiety fueled ride that anyone can enjoy for a quick Run and forget about the moment it's over. As the film opens, we're introduced to a newborn baby in a hospital with a group of doctors and...

A Quiet Place Part 2 - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 Anybody ready for reason to get back into a theatre? How about for a great summer blockbuster? Well, there’s no reason to look any further. As we move into the post Covid-19 world, everyone is looking to get out and to see life regain some sense of normalcy. That’s where A Quiet Place 2 comes into the picture. A Quiet Place 2, hereafter referred to as AQP2, does so many things right that it’s easily forgiven it’s missteps. And this is a movie to see on a big screen, IMAX or the equivalent, if possible. Just like the original, it may be hollow at it’s core, but it’s so much fun, has so much great tension and jump scares a plenty that you’ll be wanting to find your own Quiet Place by the time it’s all over. AQP2 starts off fast with a Day 1 flashback of the creatures initial attack on humankind and there’s plenty of action, jolts and John Krasinski. But after about 10 minutes we’re skipping ahead...